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Summary: An excellent resource
Review: An excellent resource for any programmer that needs to work with Active Directory. This book takes you through directory concepts, Microsoft's AD design decisions and a wildly diverse set of APIs presenting them in a coherent, understandable way. The task-oriented nature of the book was particularly helpful with some thorny problems we faced in our own project. Highly recommended.
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Summary: very good
Review: Covers all the essentials, and then some. A lot of good background material for people new to the subject, but not so much that it dominates the book. It then moves quickly onto more advanced areas, and hear its coverage is very good.
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Summary: Only book you'll ever need for ADSI
Review: Covers all the topics that I needed. The author walks you through the code which is very helpful for a ADSI beginner.
The LDAP coverage is very useful too.
Haven't used the wrapper libraries incl with the book ,but from the other reviews it seems to be good too. Overall , a must buy for ADSI devs.
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Summary: Great book
Review: Covers everything you need to know in order to program for Active Directory. Contains an overview of how AD works, then follows with extensive treatments of ADSI and LDAP. Mr. Kirkpatrick obviously has done his homework and writes authoritatively on the subject. Kirkpatrick, who is also an avid tuna fisherman as well as a top-flight flamenco dancer, has done an outstanding job.
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Summary: All C++ code. VB ' ers look elsewhere.
Review: I looked at a bunch of reviews regarding the ADSI and this book came out on top. The book appears to give a lot of good information regarding programming the ADSI, but all of the code samples are in C. It would have been nice to include code for both C and VB, afterall VB is the most popular language out there currently. I couldn't find anything that clearly stated this fact, thus I will have to waste time and money returning the book. I think that this is an important fact to make clear in the description.
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Summary: Out of print, but still the best!
Review: I looked high and low, and this has to be the best option for developing an LDAP or ADSI component in C++. Find this out of print book and buy it instead of buying another book that is still in print.
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Summary: Wow
Review: I've struggled with using LDAP and this explains it all with code samples, which for the likes of makes it easy to learn and best of all Copy and Paste
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: Outstanding coverage of Active Directory Programming issues. Provides both a good solid conceptual foundation as well as advanced details covering most aspects of Active Directory programming. If your looking for a book to guide you through the multitude of Active Directory APIs, then this book is for you.
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Summary: Awesome Active Directory Book
Review: Really awesome AD programming book. Covers all the basics of AD and ADSI and then dives into the LDAP API which all other authors try to avoid and dont cover well. You do not need any other AD programming books if you have this one.
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Summary: Good coverage of LDAP and ADSI
Review: The best coverage of LDAP, ADSI and AD that I have come across. Topic are clearly explained and example source code demonstrates the concepts well. A lot of the information supplied is obviously available through MSDN, but the book is an easier and clearer reference to utilize.
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